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American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.
The most fundamental concept of the new approach to economic aid is the focusing of our attention, our resources, and our energies on the effort to promote the economic and social development of the less developed countries.
Of particular utility in the analysis of the development, persistence, and change of social systems has been the use of the master or comprehensive processes.
Although no national norms exist for the social development of children, the teacher can find a great deal of information concerning types of social behavior normally displayed by children at various age levels.
The traditions of jurisprudence, history, philology, and sociology then evolved into something more closely resembling the modern views of these disciplines and informed the development of the social sciences, of which anthropology was a part.
Numerous institutions for social and economic development were established in South Asia and in East Africa.
To show their appreciation and affection, the Ismā ' īliyya weighed their Imam in gold, diamonds and, symbolically, in platinum, respectively, the proceeds of which were used to further develop major social welfare and development institutions in Asia and Africa.
In India and later Pakistan, social development institutions were established, in the words of Aga Khan, " for the relief of humanity ".
In East Africa, major social welfare and economic development institutions were established.
Those involved in social welfare included the accelerated development of schools and community centres, and a modern, fully equipped hospital in Nairobi.
Although game reports and social reactions are common parts of many A & E contributions, it has also, over the years, become a testing ground for new ideas on the development of the RPG as a genre and an art form.
In 1923, faced with differences between older members focusing on inner development and younger members eager to become active in the social transformations of the time, Steiner refounded the Society in an inclusive manner and established a School for Spiritual Science.
Bernard Lievegoed, a psychiatrist, founded a new method of individual and institutional development oriented towards humanizing organizations and linked with Steiner's ideas of the threefold social order.
" Sakharov's ideas on social development led him to put forward the principle of human rights as a new basis of all politics.
Its main objective is the establishment of a common market, in pursuit of the economic and social development of the region.
Model education, social, and environment programs are underway with support from multilateral development organizations.
Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.
Public discussion revolves around public sector expenditure and social services, the pace of additional economic development, and the status of the large foreign national community on the islands.
Although drops in its external assistance budget have reduced French military and social development aid to the country, France remains the most important bilateral donor and the country from which C. A. R.
Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".
Its main objective is the establishment of a common market, in pursuit of the economic and social development of the region.
Community development, often linked with Community Work or Community Planning, is often formally conducted by non-government organisations ( NGOs ), universities or government agencies to progress the social well-being of local, regional and, sometimes, national communities.
Community development practitioners must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities ' positions within the context of larger social institutions.

development and comparison
You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.
A comparison of the development of Alberta's less oil and gas-endowed neighbours, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, reveals the role petroleum has played.
These orchestral works are mainly in the galant style and though they show some development toward the late classical they reflect a general weakness in comparison to his operatic works of the same and later periods.
History of the project and comparison with closed source development.
By comparison Whorf's other work in linguistics, the development of such concepts as the allophone and the cryptotype, and the formulation of " Whorf's law " in Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics, have met with broad acceptance.
Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.
In the case of the CMM, for example, the basis for comparison would be the organizations ' software development processes.
In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.
R. Bender ultimately goes so far as to reject His's claims regarding the fabrication of certain stages of development in Haeckel's drawings, arguing that Haeckel's embryo drawings are faithful representations of real stages of embryonic development in comparison to published embryos.
Stalinist rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union was officially designed to accelerate the Marxian development towards communism, stressing that such rapid industrialization was needed because the country was previously economically backward in comparison with other countries ; and that it was needed in order to challenge internal and external enemies of communism.
In comparison the British airship, R101, introduced diesel engines with the Beardmore Tornado to avoid using highly flammable petrol in hot climates ; although these had a low power to weight ratio, limiting the payload of the weight conscious airships, as well as proving unreliable due to lack of development.
In case of system comparison or system development, naturally also the other settlement logics need to be implemented.
Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the literary audience and thus this split of literary effort led to a certain lack of development and stagnation of Czech baroque literature in comparison to other European countries of the time, especially in genres that were written for noble courts.
But the specialty was still behind in its development stages in comparison to other medical specialities, and remained a generality in this era.
Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.
Loghill Village is the next largest development and is a residential, relatively affluent, community in comparison to the rest of the county.
Evolutionary developmental biology ( evo-devo ) springs from clear proof that development is closely controlled by special genetic systems, and the hope that comparison of these systems will tell us much about the evolutionary history of different groups.
Leon Festinger ( May 8, 1919 – February 11, 1989 ), was an American social psychologist, responsible for the development of the theory of cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory, and the discovery of the role of propinquity in the formation of social ties as well as other contributions to the study of social networks.
China's economic geography development through the comparison of unique way.
When the state separated from Zacatecas, Aguascalientes raced ahead in its development, while the state of Zacatecas remained behind in comparison.
By comparison, a high-level programming language isolates the execution semantics of a computer architecture from the specification of the program, which simplifies development.
Where internal controversy did arise in the liberal consensus was about the exact relation of variations to normal development-some considering in the wake of Freud that ' these different sexual orientations can best be explained and understood by comparison with normal development ', and highlighting the fear of intimacy in perversion as ' a kind of sex ... which is hedged about with special conditions ... puts a vast distance between the partners '.
In comparison, the subsequent new product development process is typically structured, predictable, and formal.

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